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Article: Neal Cassady The Fast Life of a Beat HeroBOOKS & IDEASiht.com/culture
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- November 18, 2006
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International Herald Tribune
11-18-2006
Neal Cassady The Fast Life of a Beat Hero. By David Sandison and Graham Vickers. 340 pages. $24.95. Chicago Review Press. *In 1948, Allen Ginsberg's father wrote him: ''Exorcise Neal,'' writes the reviewer James Campbell. Raised on Denver's skid row, Cassady met Ginsberg and the forming Beat circle in New York in 1946, arriving in a stolen car with his 16-year-old bride and money taken from her relatives. He served ...